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Rudyard Kipling. The Seven Seas. Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., 1914.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy in the publisher's bright red cloth binding, with strong gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The cloth is clean and shows minimal wear. The binding is square and sound with square, unbumped corners. The top edges are gilt and the other edges clean and unspotted. The end papers are clean and uncracked. The contents are clean, bright and tight with no ownership inscriptions or any other markings of any kind. A very presentable copy of this desirable Kipling work.

Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. Actions and Reactions. Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., 1914.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy in the publisher's bright red cloth binding, with strong gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The cloth is clean and shows minimal wear. The binding is square and sound with square, unbumped corners. The top edges are gilt and the other edges clean and unspotted. The end papers are clean and uncracked. The contents are clean, bright and tight with no ownership inscriptions or any other markings of any kind. A very presentable copy of this desirable Kipling work.

Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries. Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., 1914.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy in the publisher's bright red cloth binding, with strong gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The cloth is clean and shows minimal wear. The binding is square and sound with square, unbumped corners. The top edges are gilt and the other edges clean and unspotted. The end papers are clean and uncracked. The contents are clean, bright and tight with no ownership inscriptions or any other markings of any kind. A very presentable copy of this desirable Kipling work.

Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. The Day's Work. Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., 1914.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy in the publisher's bright red cloth binding, with strong gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The cloth is clean and shows minimal wear. The binding is square and sound with square, unbumped corners. The top edges are gilt and the other edges clean and unspotted. The end papers are clean and uncracked. The contents are clean, bright and tight with no ownership inscriptions or any other markings of any kind. A very presentable copy of this desirable Kipling work.

Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. Songs From Books. Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., 1914.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy in the publisher's bright red cloth binding, with strong gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The cloth is clean and shows minimal wear. The binding is square and sound with square, unbumped corners. The top edges are gilt and the other edges clean and unspotted. The end papers are clean and uncracked. The contents are clean, bright and tight with no ownership inscriptions or any other markings of any kind. A very presentable copy of this desirable Kipling work.

Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. The Five Nations. Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., 1914.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy in the publisher's bright red cloth binding, with strong gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The cloth is clean and shows minimal wear. The binding is square and sound with square, unbumped corners. The top edges are gilt and the other edges clean and unspotted. The end papers are clean and uncracked. The contents are clean, bright and tight with no ownership inscriptions or any other markings of any kind. A very presentable copy of this desirable Kipling work.

Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.

[Kipling, Rudyard]. Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works [with] The Kipling Index.. Various Publishers 1914-1917, London, Edinburgh, and Garden City, 1914.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Rare collection of four first edition Kipling indexes. Small octavo, four volumes, original wrappers. Contains: The Kipling Index [London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914], Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works with an Index to the Volumes Published by Macmillan & Co., Ltd. [Edinburgh: R & R Clark, n.d.], The Kipling Index: Being a Guide to Authorized American Trade Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Works [Saxton, Gene F. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, n.d.], and The Less Familiar Kipling, and Kiplingana [Monkshood, G. F. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1917]. In very good to near fine condition. Essential for the Kipling collector. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. Plain Tales From the Hills 1886-1887 [The Works of Rudyard Kipling Vol. I]. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.

Price: US$420.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed. Volume I ONLY. Number 577 of only 1050 copies SIGNED by Kipling on half-title. Tanning to spine. Otherwise VG w/ only minor edge wear. Pages/boards clean, binding tight.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard.. THE NEW ARMY.. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, 1914.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Six pamphlets, octavo, uniformly bound in paper wrappers, the front covers lettered in green. Copyright issues-- just a few copies of each were printed. Precedes the British edition. Livingston 390. The titles are: (infantry) The Men At Work; II: The Quality of the Machine; III: Guns and Supply; IV: Canadians in Camp; V: Indian Troops; VI: A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion. In a custom red chemise and slipcase with leather spine and gilt spine titles that is a bit sunned at the top edge of rear panel. 042407B

Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.

Kipling, R.. The New Army. [ 6 vols, complete set ]. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, first editions, 1914, 1914.

Price: US$552.31 + shipping

Description: Edition of 50 sets only. 6 vols, printed wrappers, small 8vo, various paginations. The first non-newspaper publication of a series of six articles Kipling wrote for The Daily Telegraph (appearing there in December 1914), these pamphlets being printed in small numbers to secure American copyright. Britain had declared war on Germany on 4th August, 1914 following the German invasion of Belgium. Kipling's articles are chiefly concerned with the training of a new army of those who had volunteered to fight. The articles (some of whose titles differ somewhat from the later English edition) are: 1. (Infantry) The Men at Work; 2. The Quality of the Machine; 3. Guns and Supply; 4. Canadians in Camp; 5. Indian Troops; 6. A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion. Uncommon. Richards notes in his bibliography that it was reported that "most of the few copies printed" of this title "were mailed to newspapers and destroyed, being separated into leaves for the convenience of linotype operators". Richards A275. A near Fine set preserved in a chemise and leather-backed slipcase. Bookplates of Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks on front inside board of chemise.

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling (Seven Seas Edition) 24 Volume Set - Signed By Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday Page & Co., Graden City, New York, 1914.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original grey paper over boards with linen spines, deckle edges, ribbon markers. Volume 1 signed by Rudyard Kipling on half title page. A very nice looking set of 24 volumes, missing volumes 14, 17,& 26. Very good condition. The linen spines are a little age toned. The Seven Seas Edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling is limited to one thousand and fifty numbered copies of which this is No. 689. If you have any questions or would like to see more photos please ask. The set weighs 50 lbs before packing.

Seller: Martin Kaukas Books, Manchester, VT, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills 1886-1887 SIGNED/ Limited Edition [The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, Vol. 1 only] Seven Seas Edition. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City N.Y., 1914.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good hardcover, 1914 Seven Seas edition SIGNED BY KIPLING on half-title page, Limited Edition [No. 18 out of 1,050], Volume ONE of Seven Seas ediiton. We also have several others in this set that are NOT signed, (but still the Seven Seas limited edition)

Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard (Signed). The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday Page & Co, Garden City, 1914.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed set has 22 of the first 25 Volumes

Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 24 Vols. SIGNED.. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City N.Y., 1914.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1914. Hardcover. Signed on the half title page, Each chapter has first initial in red color, 2 volumes have partial slipcases as issued. #812 of 1050 copies. . Sm 4to., Buckram cloth and boards, extra labels included . Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET

Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard.. The New Army.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914, 1914.

Price: US$877.19 + shipping

Description: First US copyright edition of Kipling's series of articles written after visiting army training camps during the First World War. The publisher's archives note that 50 copies of each pamphlet were printed. Complete sets in this condition are rare. In his after-dinner speech at the Kipling Society annual lunch in May 1999, David Alan Richards noted that Kipling's "London literary agent A. P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings. to establish copyright in each country". Richards, in his bibliography, notes that it was reported that "most of the few copies printed" of this title "were mailed to newspapers and destroyed, being separated into leaves for the convenience of linotype operators". The present pamphlets represent the true first editions and provide slightly edited versions (removing colloquialisms for an American audience) of articles simultaneously published within The Daily Telegraph on 7, 10, 14, 19, 21, and 24 December 1914. The sub-titles of the pamphlets comprise: "The Men at Work", "The Quality of the Machine", "Guns and Supply", "Canadians in Camp", "Indian Troops", "A Territorial Battalion, and a Conclusion". Martindell 137; Livingston 390; Stewart 382; Grolier 452; Ballard CLXXI; Ashley Vol. III p. 36-7; Richards A275. 6 volumes, octavo. Original pale yellow wrappers, lettered on front covers in light green. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Occasional light dust-soiling to wrappers, minor indentation to front cover of volume 2, else near-fine and crisp copies.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling (Seven Seas Edition) 27 Volume Set - Signed By Kipling. Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1914.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed. SIGNED; Signed limited edition; signed by Kipling on half title page; number 582 of 1050 copies. 24 volumes ONLY; lacking volumes 25-27. Very Good. Gently used; light shelf wear to boards, some chipping to spine labels and detached ribbons due to age; first volume is softened to top of spine; otherwise a very nice collectible set in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.

Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1914.

Price: US$1350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Twenty-seven volumes (complete), octavo, cream cloth and boards, paper spine labels printed in black; darkened spines and soiled boards, slightly rubbed/chipped labels; lacking two publisher slipcases. Seven Seas edition, one of 1050 numbered copies, signed by Kipling. A tight, attractive set that includes masterpieces such as "The Jungle Book," "The Second Jungle Book," "Kim," and "Captains Courageous."

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Works. Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 1914.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Description: Seven Seas Edition. Number 57 of 1,000 sets, signed by Kipling on the half-title of vol. I. 27 vols. 8vo. The last Volume is " Debits and Credits." Stewart, pp. 573-574Mill/32/2/Front & Back Quarter beige cloth and boards. Bookplate of Micah Pratt Clough. Spines are toned, label rubbed on spine of volume XXVII Seven Seas Edition. Number 57 of 1,000 sets, signed by Kipling on the half-title of vol. I.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling.. , 1914.

Price: US$15000.00 + shipping

Description: EXCEPTIONAL DELUXE BINDING KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Twenty-seven volumes expanded to fifty-one. 8vo., 237 x 152 mm, bound in full deluxe red morocco, elaborate gilt borders, spines elaborately gilt, silk moire endleaves, turn-ins inlaid with blue morocco, gilt extra with wide dentelles composed of small ornamental tools and large flowers, t.e.g. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914-1920. The Seven Seas Edition, one of 1050 sets printed, signed by the author. An extremely fine copy in a full red morocco binding of the absolute highest quality. Leather bound sets of this quality are very rarely seen on the market. The Seven Seas Edition is one of the most respected and sought-after collected works of Kipling ever printed. It includes: Wee Willie Winkie, The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories, Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill, Plain Tales from the Hills, Life's Handicap, The Day's Work, Stalky & Co., Kim, Just So Stories, and much more. Ordinary copies were issued in cloth in twenty-seven volumes. This copy has been exquisitely bound and expanded to fifty-one volumes. PROVENANCE: John Francis Neylan, with his bookplate designed by William H. Wilke and printed by John Henry Nash, the famous California printer. Neylan (1885-1960) was a noted San Francisco lawyer who was chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California. Additionally he was William Randolph Hearst's chief attorney with close ties to the Hearst newspapers, and thus had enormous political clout and considerable wealth. Stewart, Kipling, pp. 573-574.

Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.